Jessica L. Merkel

Jessica helps individuals and families navigate some of life’s most important transitions, from welcoming a new child and planning for the future to addressing the loss of a loved one or resolving family related legal matters. She is committed to understanding each client’s goals and providing thoughtful, practical guidance so they can move forward with confidence.

As a partner at Bunger & Robertson, Jessica’s practice focuses on estate planning, trust and probate administration, estate, trust and fiduciary litigation, collaborative law, guardianship administration, and family law. She is also a registered Domestic Relations and Civil Mediator and previously served as an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she taught Mediation.

Jessica earned her undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and received her J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2006. After beginning her legal career at another Bloomington law firm, she joined Bunger & Robertson in 2008.

A Bloomington native, Jessica is deeply invested in the community she calls home and supports a number of local nonprofit organizations. Outside of her legal practice, she enjoys raising her three children and bringing the same care and commitment to her own family that she brings to her clients.

Memberships

Monroe County Bar Association

Indiana State Bar Association

Indiana Bar Probate Trust, Real Property Section Member and District Council Representative

American Bar Association

Education

Gettysburg College, B.A. 2003

IU Maurer School of Law, J.D. 2006

Bar Admissions

Indiana, 2006

District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, 2006

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, 2006